Reichsman still equal parts tedious and annoying.

None of what you posted after this expletive in any way contradicts what I said. If you don't like the Barracuda SF, then don't do it. Lady Grey is up next. Then Sister Psyche. You are responding to a point I didn't make. Follow back the discussion trail.

I know exactly what you mean. I like Barracuda, especially the ambushes, but the tunnels sometimes give me motion sickness. It was especially bad a couple of days ago, with two MMs on the team, because of being shoved by the pets so I was constantly facing not quite the way I expected.

Citadel it worse for it, though.

I did not say they didn't involve tank and spank. I said they didn't involve an artificially inflated sack of HP. This is my problem with these Task Forces: the giant sack of HP, which in the case of Barracuda may not be defeatable by an otherwise well-balanced team because of arbitrary AT requirements.

Recluse being level 54 affects more than the time it takes to defeat him. It also makes him significantly more dangerous. Reichsman frankly isn't. The massive 5th Column ambushes would still be dangerous if Reichsman had normal HP. The added AVs would be MORE dangerous if he had normal HP, as it would then be possible, even likely, to get more than one at a time.

It's just a big sack of posts - it takes ages to finish it.

Although after some thought I have decided to keep my account current, Reischmann was a big factor in a recent cancelling of my account. I'm back now. But Reischmann is one of the worst TFs in the entire game. I am maintaining my account SOLELY because I love my CoX characters and don't want to abandon them.... but....

I had been mulling over a decision to try the most recent superhero-genre game out the gate. The night before I cancelled my NCSoft account, I was on a team that beat on Reischmann for 30+ minutes.

Thirty minutes, people. Thirty minutes of the exact same thing. Well, other than my Blaster being repeatedly stunned and killed - I do carry a lot of BFs, but my inspiration-capacity does have a limit.

Right before we finally beat Reischmann, I thought, "You know, I have been here since 2006 AND **** THIS!!" I was bored. I finally *realized* that I was bored. And I decided to give That New Game a try. It was like I hit critical mass with CoX.

Also adding to my frustration: I am primarily a solo player. I am having TREMENDOUS trouble alpha-slotting my level 50s since I mostly solo. If I team for the TF Of The Week, well looky-here! Its always a speed-run because someone has an hour to play, so we cant do a shard-run... and I end up with two shards. Whoopee-****ing do, people. This is locking me out of end-game content. Out of 15 level 50s, THREE, a total of THREE have the alpha slot filled. Only one of those is at third tier.

Now some may shout, "BAD MIGHT LEAVE THE GAME, WOOOOOO-HOOOOO!" true enough, but try to look past that, and realize that this mindset is not that hot of a thing for CoX. Boredom and making it impossible for people to attain end-game stuff is not a recipe for keeping people in this game. Other New Shinies are out there..... and although of course they don't have all of the bells and whistles that CoX has after [?] years, they're...still pretty new and shiny. AND THEY DON"T HAVE YOU BEATING ON THE SAME FREAKING GUY FOR A HALF-HOUR!

The developers might want to rethink this stance manifested by an AV such as Reischmann. I mean, my account is still current; but I spend the majority of my gaming-time over in The New Shiny these days. Reischmann is Epic Fail and my not being able to get my 50s to the true end-game content is Epic Fail. If you disagree, that is [general] your right, but meanwhile my CoX account is mostly stagnant.

I wonder how many are in that same boat with "FRUSTRATION" writ large across the stern? Not everyone, but I'd bet money I'm not the only one somewhat disillusioned at this point.

Alright, I guess pithy GG has her moments too.

Well maybe you do need to "lrn2ply" as the first time I went through it was a success. And it was a PuG too to boot!

This is what I do when I run Khan with friends. We taunt all the other AVs next to Reichsman as they enter the battle, but otherwise ignore them. Spillover AOE damage usually kills a couple of them before Reichsman dies, then we mop up whoever's left.

I've yet to fail a Khan TF, or indeed be on one that took too long. That does nothing to make the game's single dumbest TF any less boring, tedious and annoying. But thank you for the patronising insult just the same. I'm sure that helped.

And when I extort how bad this TF is, I'm including the original Positron TF, Dr. Quaterfield and even that godawful Bastion TF. Sure, they're not very well designed, but at least they're not deliberately annoying and things actually happen in them. They don't devolve into a long boring fight of watching a bar steadily decrease.

The Riechsman TF is only slightly less boring than watching my game load.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

What.

Me and that guy with the Alan Moore icon were talking about the LRSF.

In a Reichsman thread? Why?

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Because the Alan Moore guy brought it up.

That is a rather exceptional team. Rad is a good debuffer, everyone was +1 and had rares...


We tried that on our team last night. It was okay till the second psi AV came out and decimated the stone tank and everyone else.

Are we talking about LRSF?

I assume this was not back in the day. Because you acheieved a miracle if you did this back in I7.

I wasn't subscribed that far back.

I've done about 20 of these this week, and the tank/brute/kheld has pulled the AVs in to join reichs every time. It's varied as to whether we've killed reichs or the other AVs first, depending on team composition, but the tank has always dealt with both. It doesn't take an exceptional team.

If you go into this with no buffs and debuffs and an inadequate tank, you will suffer unless you're very good, but most reasonably balanced teams can cope.

To be fair the controller was /Rad

3/7 potential buffers/debuffers. Try again?

We did!

We did 5 Kahns back to back, that was the fastest (slowest was about 52 minutes as I recall, we were getting sloppy). All sorts of different mixes. Most lopsided in one way or another.